03552nam 2200781Ia 450 991081017310332120200520144314.00-19-028575-30-19-773995-41-280-47350-90-19-803114-91-4237-6063-810.1093/oso/9780195136104.001.0001(CKB)1000000000460567(EBL)281047(OCoLC)476025344(SSID)ssj0000192183(PQKBManifestationID)11179908(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192183(PQKBWorkID)10197786(PQKB)11409298(Au-PeEL)EBL281047(CaPaEBR)ebr10269011(CaONFJC)MIL47350(OCoLC)935262387(OCoLC)1406783153(StDuBDS)9780197739952(MiAaPQ)EBC281047(OCoLC)42022247(FINmELB)ELB164091(EXLCZ)99100000000046056719990727d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe life of prayer in a world of science Protestants, prayer, and American culture, 1870-1930 /Rick Ostrander1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20001 online resource (240 pages)Religion in America seriesIncludes index.Previously issued in print: 2000.0-19-513610-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-225) and index.Contents; Introduction; ONE: A Final Act of Purification: The Modern Scientific Attack on Prayer; TWO: Proving the Living God: Answered Prayer as a Modern Evangelical Apologetic; THREE: The Spiritual Unrest: The Cultural Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FOUR: Divine Immanence: The Ideological Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism; FIVE: A Sane Mysticism: The Christocentric Liberal Ethic of Prayer; SIX: The New Belief in Prayer: Healing and Intercession in Liberal Protestantism; SEVEN: The Religion of a Mature Mind: Liberal Devotional Teachings in the Early Twentieth Century; EIGHT: Modernism and Prayer in the Twenties; Notes; Select Bibliography; IndexBy the end of the 19th century, the ascendance of science had made it difficult to believe in a God who intervened. American evangelicals chose to counterattack in response to the assault on petitionary prayer by naturalistic scientists.Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)PrayerChristianityHistory19th centuryPrayerChristianityHistory20th centuryProtestant churchesUnited StatesDoctrinesHistory19th centuryProtestant churchesUnited StatesDoctrinesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesChurch history19th centuryUnited StatesChurch history20th centuryPrayerChristianityHistoryPrayerChristianityHistoryProtestant churchesDoctrinesHistoryProtestant churchesDoctrinesHistory248.3/2/097309034Ostrander Richard1965-1760032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810173103321The life of prayer in a world of science4198787UNINA